surfaces
RSS surfacesBuilding Blocks for Mobile Free-Space-Optical Networks
White Paper In this paper, for proof-of-concept, an auto-configurable circuit integrated with light sources and detectors placed on spherical surfaces is designed and tested. Existence of Line Of Sight (LOS) and alignment between the communicating antennas are... [18 Jul 2008]
Multi-Bandwidth Frequency Selective Surfaces for Near Infrared Filtering: Design and Optimization
White Paper Frequency selective surfaces are widely used in the microwave and millimeter wave regions of the spectrum for filtering signals. They are used in telecommunication systems for multi-frequency operation or in instrument detectors for spectroscopy. [10 Jul 2008]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does Threat Modeling (Level 300)
White Paper Microsoft has developed a process through which minimal input can produce a feature-rich threat model that identifies a wide range of critical information including contextual threats, trust boundaries, fracture points, attack surfaces, and direct... [06 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Officials believe it was norovirus, a particularly nasty type of virus that spread by touching dirty surfaces. According to an Associated Press report, workers at the conference centre disinfected surfaces including food preparation tables... [16 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up The poster suggests lifting the prints from hard surfaces such as a beer glass or doorknob. Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking Scottish gentleman. Reward: £1,000. An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners... [11 Apr 2008]
Photos: Satellites free the roads from snow and ice
Photo From the control centre The South Wales Trunk Road Agency (SWTRA) managers can deploy gritters from depots, track their movements and even record rates and densities of salt on the road surfaces. Satellites are spying on the Welsh roads to keep... [09 Apr 2008]
Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints
Photo It suggests lifting the prints from hard surfaces such as a beer glass or doorknob. Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. [07 Apr 2008]
Photos: Microsoft Surfaces in Vegas
Photo Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer got a one-night gig on the Las Vegas Strip at Harrah's casino last week at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship drawing party. Poker celebrities, and a few faces famous outside the game, got a glimpse of... [07 Mar 2008]
A Meshing Scheme for Efficient Hardware Implementation of Butterfly Subdivision Surfaces Using Displacement Mapping
White Paper A common bottleneck for high performance graphics systems is the transfer of millions of triangles from the CPU to the graphics pipeline. Displacement Mapping is an effective technique for encoding high levels of detail of surface models through... [29 Feb 2008]
Simulation of Iridescence and Translucency on Thin Surfaces
White Paper This paper will focus on simulating the visual effect of translucency and iridescence of thin surfaces such as butterfly wings. When creating a visual impression of a particular material, an important characteristic of that surface is the... [28 Feb 2008]
A Disconnect Between Class a Modeling and CAD
White Paper Triumph found that it was difficult and time-consuming to create free form surfaces in a solid modeling application. So it started searching for a more automated method to develop efficient, aesthetically pleasing, production quality surfaces. [14 Jan 2008]
LEGO Captures Original Design Intent: Defines Best-in-Practice Mold Design
White Paper LEGO Group wanted to improve product mold design process and rapidly develop free form surfaces. The company utilized free form surface mold design methodology and created surfaces from curves on the computer or from scanned data. [14 Jan 2008]
Siemens Case Study: Bruckner Maschinenbau GmbH
White Paper Bruckner's machines are large assemblies yet they also contain parts with freeform surfaces. They wanted to accurately represent large assemblies as well as parts with freeform surfaces with speed development of new machines by leveraging existing... [14 Jan 2008]
Phillips Plastics' Focus on Innovation and Time-to-Market Enable Rapid Development of Sleek, Patented Chemical Splash Goggles
White Paper The point data from the scan was converted into surfaces, creating a digital version of the head in NX. With this as a start, and some baseline data such as lens thickness criteria determined by an optics expert, the design work on the goggles... [14 Jan 2008]
Total Industrial Design Strategy Cuts Overall Costs, Boosts Quality
White Paper The challenge was to ensure quality products by maintaining control of surfaces through mechanical engineering and tooling development. Alloy Total Product Design offered extra value by extending role of Industrial Design (ID) to anticipate... [14 Jan 2008]
